Word: treating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chinese code word for Soviet expansionism. To counterbalance that possibility, the communique pointedly said that the new step was not taken for "transient, tactical or expedient reasons," diplomatic language implying that Carter's China action was not in any way directed against Moscow. Vance told TIME: "We will treat the Soviet Union and China equally and not play one off against the other...
...Rowlf tinkles the ivories with a dogged smile. Fozzie Bear is a Teddy. Except for Animal, who wrestles alligators when he is let off his chain, the only alarming character in Muppet society is Miss Piggy, she of the iron fists in the lavender gloves. "She wants everyone to treat her like a lady, and if they don't, she'll cut them in half," says Muppeteer Frank Oz, 34. He should know, since it is his right arm that wriggles Miss Piggy through her black-belt coquetries...
Even while this new method is being developed to treat kidney disease, thousands of Americans may be unwittingly bringing it upon themselves. Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, Drs. Thomas Murray and Martin Goldberg of Philadelphia's University of Pennsylvania Hospital report that as many as 5% of all instances of kidney failure in the U.S.-some 8,000 new cases a year-may be caused by common over-the-counter and prescription analgesics. The usual culprit: a mixture of aspirin and either phenacetin or acetaminophen, ingredients found in many well-known painkillers as well...
Steptoe also reported that he and Edwards have modified their technique so that they now achieve pregnancies in 10% of the women they treat. Baby Louise Brown was the result of a method that produced pregnancy in only 1% of cases...
...base, the decision of the majority stemmed from a judgement that the Philosophy Playboy respresents, and the way in which it wished to treat Radcliffe students, are offensive. Surely there are no other criteria: the ad was not deceptive, nor libelous, nor dangerous to the social order; it did not directly promote the economic or political subversion of the would-be models, nor did it compel them to do anything against their wills. It simply was likely to offend many readers, as it offended a majority of the staff...